Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Olson wanted to name & head a Term III ticket in the May 7 primary. So did Warhorse William Gibbs McAdoo, now a shipping magnate. A split progressive vote would put sand in the bandwagon's axles, might let John Garner's delegates romp home ahead. A Donald Duck for publicity purposes only, Secretary Ickes now quacked hard sense to a dozen assorted California Democrats in 36 crowded hours, got them to agree on a consolidated headless ticket, thus sending 48 harmony delegates to Chicago July 15. Then Mr. Ickes solemnly assured reporters he was in California solely...
...Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Pluto the Pup the success of Walt Disney's first full-length feature picture, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, was a blow. It meant that henceforth they would play second fiddle in the animated cartoon kingdom. For Cartoonist Disney, Snow White grossed $4,677,863 in 1938-39, jumped his net to a record $1,250,130 for 1939, launched him on a new kind of business with new problems: big-time feature production...
...down to the real events of the evening. You didn't manage to "steal the show," or "walk off with the honors" at all. Another performance like this one, and Cambridge is likely to conclude it can do without the pompous, angry little man who acts rather like Donald Duck...
...Ocean Park, Wash., fishermen reported that an oyster snared a duck by its foot at low tide, drowned it when the water rose...
...monkeys in the East End and dogs everywhere. One of the proudest days in Ornithologist Neville Chamberlain's life was when, during one of his customary early morning bird-watching walks with his wife in St. James's Park, he spotted a rare, migratory, dark-pied wagtail duck...